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MBTA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The CharlieCard is a smart card that will provide an even greater level of convenience and faster service. CharlieCards can be reused over time and you will be able to "add" stored value and passes to your cards at vending machines, fareboxes, MBTA ticket offices and on-line. Currently CharlieCards are only available to our Senior/TAP patrons, but they will be introduced to the general public later this year. www.mbta.com /projects_underway/afc/charlieticket_info.asp   (215 words)

Ask Us A Question   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) CharlieCards are already available to senior citizens (65+) and to persons with disabilities who are eligible for the Massachusetts Transportation Access Pass (TAP) ID or Blind ID card. The MBTA plans to encourage the use of the CharlieCard by imposing a surchrage on CharlieTicket use, beginning with its scheduled fare increase in January, 2007. CharlieCard fare collection boxes have been installed on all vehicles on the Silver Line (both segments), and on all buses and trackless trolleys. dededo.guamus.com /section/CharlieCard   (1465 words)

Charlie Card - UrbanPlanet.org We're pleased to announce the "CharlieCard" and the "CharlieTicket"; a new and exciting way to pay your fare, soon to be previewed on the Silver Line. The riders on the Washington Street branch of the Silver Line will be experiencing this preview and several hundred customers will be using the CharlieCard and providing valuable feedback in order to improve the service system-wide. Yesterday on the Silver Line, the first CharlieCard holders waved their cards over the new fare boxes, installed over the weekend on all 17 of the bus line's 60-foot buses. www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=6889   (3297 words)

MBTA drops free fares on Green Line - News While CharlieCard holders will pay $1.70 to ride the subway, travelers using CharlieTickets and cash will pay $2.00 to board the T, according to the MBTA website. CharlieCards -- which have not been introduced yet -- are similar to tickets but are reusable and allow riders to increase their value at station vending machines. While T tokens may be converted into stored value on CharlieCards and Tickets, their value will be $1.25, not that of one ride. www.dailyfreepress.com /news/2006/11/17/News/Mbta-Drops.Free.Fares.On.Green.Line-2467638.shtml   (399 words)

Proposal to Increase T Fares in January - The Tech Some of the fare exceptions are so old and entrenched, such as the free outbound rides on the Green Line surface stations, that current T officials can’t fully explain their history. T officials also said charging more for single-purchase fares will give more incentive for passengers to use the CharlieCards which look like credit cards and can be reloaded with cash to help speed the boarding of bus passengers and discourage people from trying to skip paying fares. The planned increases were met with resigned support from one critic of the most recent fare increase, who praised the creation of free transfers, something passenger advocates have been seeking for years. www-tech.mit.edu /V126/N22/tfare22.html   (968 words)

Hub Politics: Is Charlie Is Watching You? The MBTA is finally modernizing--out with the old tokens, and on with the new CharlieCards. The CharlieCards have not even permeated through each line of the T, and people are already shouting out "Big Brother." The Herald's front page story this morning, cleverly titled 'Charlie's' watching you: 'T' cards will track riders’ movements gives the new system a bad rap. But each transaction with the plastic CharlieCards will be recorded electronically, creating a record of where users were at a particular time on a particular day. www.hubpolitics.com /archives/000128.php   (539 words)

BadTransit She already receives monthly bus passes from her employer via salary deductions - and as these systems are notoriously difficult to modify slightly, she opted to leave that salary deduction in place, and received the bus pass as usual. The debut of the Charliecard has resulted in insufferably long trips on the Silver Line due to poor design of the farebox, with most commuters unhappy with the result. Richardson asks Silver Line commuters - already inconvenienced by this experiment and having been promised a free CharlieCard for agreeing to trial this system - is the same address of the infamous MBTA “Money Room”, congenitally damaged with an inability to count, and a certain security problem that has classic MBTA written all over itself. www.badtransit.com /index.php?/site/comments/thanks_for_helping_us_out_now_pay_up   (1306 words)

CharlieTrash | Universal Hub   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) That is the idea behind the CharlieCard, which will debut at a later date. Yes, even the tickets are reusable but only up to a certain point and depending on how finicky the machine is, it will either eat it or add money after you jump through the usual hoops. They "say" that the CharlieCard will come after all of the new machines are installed but we are assuming that all of them will be done before the end of the year and that the bloody things will work... www.universalhub.com /node/5743   (630 words)

metro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) BOSTON The hefty surcharge commuters will be forced to pay if they don’t use the CharlieCard will unfairly hit riders in Boston neighborhoods who are most dependent upon public transit, an MBTA board member has said. Loux said she is counting on T officials to make a concerted effort to reach out to all neighborhoods with the CharlieCard and make the technology accessible, or she will call for a repeal of the surcharge provision. MBTA General Manger Daniel Grabauskas said the T has already ordered 1 million CharlieCards, and is making it a priority to disperse the cards throughout the system. boston.metro.us /metro/local/article/.../5672.html   (397 words)

World Wide Wood » Blog Archive » CharlieCard Boston.com reports that the MBTA, the oldest public transit system in the United States, is finally ditching its token system and switching over to a passcard system. The system will be called the “CharlieCard”, in reference to the 1940’s Boston political song, Charlie on the MTA. It will be nice to be able to load fares onto a card, and keep that handy, as opposed to needing to buy tokens and have them jingling around in your pocket while traveling. prwdot.org /2004/11/08/charliecard   (296 words)

Next stop: confusion - The Boston Globe The CharlieCard is the new monthly T pass and the CharlieTicket an individual ticket. Grabauskas begs to differ and further vows an orderly rollout next year when it goes live in all its splendor on subways, buses, and commuter rail. Some 70,000 elderly and handicapped out of the 1.1 million daily T riders already use the monthly CharlieCard, but everyone else is limited until January to a CharlieTicket or token. boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/05/07/next_stop_confusion?mode=PF   (842 words)

Outbound service no longer free - News It is now going to cost riders using one-time use CharlieTickets or cash $2 to take the T inbound and outbound on all lines. Refillable CharlieCard users will only have to pay $1.70 and can transfer to local buses for free and express buses for a discount. The cards, which will be available starting in early December, will be equipped with a chip allowing riders to tap the card on a receiver upon boarding the train or bus to pay the fare. www.bcheights.com /home/news/2006/11/20/News/Outbound.Service.No.Longer.Free-2470299.shtml   (512 words)

BadTransit As pointed out previously the problem seems not to be with the Charlie Card itself but rather with the fare box design: buses and surface trolleys must still accept cash. As for “listening to the riders”, one friend of this correspondent who volunteered for the CharlieCard trial has yet to be contacted for her opinion on the cards or the fare boxes. All the T has sought from her is the monthly cost of the supposedly FREE trial CharlieCards! www.badtransit.com /index.php?/site/comments/more_breaking_news_from_the_globe_charliecard_trial_a_failure   (714 words)

On the Wrong Track - The Boston Globe Betting on Trouble The MBTA is rolling out its new CharlieCard and CharlieTicket on the Blue Line, but the agency's been unwise to include the Suffolk Downs stop. After returning from a day at the horse races, I purchased my card and was about to pass through the gates when a dispute broke out. The MBTA is rolling out its new CharlieCard and CharlieTicket on the Blue Line, but the agency's been unwise to include the Suffolk Downs stop. www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/10/23/on_the_wrong_track   (292 words)

The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Charlie Tickets, Cards To Replace T Tokens Pesaturo said that automatic CharlieCard and CharlieTicket vending machines would allow MBTA employees—who currently dispense tokens from behind bulletproof glass—to leave their booths to become customer service agents and security officers. And although a customer poll on the MBTA’s own website indicated that a majority of visitors thought the next station slated to accept CharlieTickets and CharlieCards would be South Station, Pesaturo said that, in fact, Wonderland, the north terminus of the Blue Line, is next in line for conversion to the new system. For Harvard students hoping to use CharlieTickets and CharlieCards at the Square’s station along the Red Line, that means waiting until long after the summer is over. www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=508221   (678 words)

Card Technology, The Smart Card News Source About 45,000 smart fare cards, called CharlieCards, have been issued so far to MBTA workers and reduced-fare customers, the spokesman says. The POS terminals will be used initially in ticket offices, and eventually at retail outlets, he adds. Those locations will also receive contactless read/write devices so the CharlieCards can be replenished, he says. www.cardtechnology.com /article.html?id=20051227NEX37XQV   (237 words)

metro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Beginning tomorrow, there will be seven locations at Logan where commuters can purchase CharlieCard tickets to use on the Silver and Blue lines. The kiosks are located in areas where customers are transferring to ground transportation in order to lure the travelers to the T system, said MBTA General Manager Daniel Grabauskas. By the end of December, T officials claim the entire subway and bus system will be converted to the CharlieCard system. boston.metro.us /metro/local/article/.../5782.html   (251 words)

News Briefs - The Tech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Cheaper fares will be offered for users of the CharlieCard, a plastic ticket that can be reloaded with money and reused. Bus and subway fares with the CharlieCard will cost $1.25 and $1.70, respectively, according to the MBTA Web site. Users of the CharlieCard will receive free transfers to local busses from the subway, and vice versa. www-tech.mit.edu /V126/N55/55briefs.html   (343 words)

T for tardy - The Boston Globe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) But it is not so clear how fare increases from $1.25 to $1.70 for subway rides and from 90 cents to $1.25 for buses translate into better service for commuters. And occasional riders without CharlieCards could be looking at subway fares as high as $2.25 and bus fares reaching $1.60. Fare increases might be bearable if they coincided with clear improvements to the T's public address systems, which evoke distress calls from distant ships breaking up at sea, and upgrades of LED message boards to include reliable arrival times for the next train. bostonworks.boston.com /news/articles/2006/08/24/t_for_tardy   (575 words)

Metro Magazine (Features) With the introduction of the CharlieCard in May 2005, Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) entered a new era of electronic fare collection, as the system enabled fare payment using smart cards and credit/debit cards. Six months prior to the debut of the CharlieCard, MBTA began to work with consultants to review matters of privacy and provide recommendations. On the other hand, the personalized CharlieCard is issued only to those customers who agree to provide personal information such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, postal address and a password for customer access to make inquiries. www.metro-magazine.com /t_featpick.cfm?id=90509476   (2616 words)

MBTA restructures fares Beginning in January, passengers will be able to transfer from the authority’s subway system to buses at no extra charge. Passengers that use the CharlieCard —MBTA’s version of the smart card — will pay a flat rate of $1.70 per subway ride. In addition, the price of monthly commuter-rail passes will increase between 23 percent and 28 percent, depending on travel distance. www.progressiverailroading.com /freightnews/article.asp?id=9777   (150 words)

UTU: News They are to be voted on by the T's board of directors next month, but the board almost always follows the recommendation of administrators. Riders who pay cash or use automated fare tickets instead of the automated CharlieCards, which will become available by the end of the year, would pay 25 cents more to ride buses and 30 cents more to ride subways and trolleys. As a result, he said, lower-income residents of neighborhoods served only by buses will be forced to pay the surcharge. www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=30969   (937 words)

Destination : Freedom Newsletter - November 13, 2006 The CharlieCard is part of the system’s new fare card and paper ticket system that has eliminated coin tokens and now seeks to limit the use of cash and coin where possible. Revenue generated by the fare increase will allow the MBTA to maintain existing levels of service and continue to make system-wide improvements like station modernization projects and the introduction of automated fare collection equipment that enhances customer service and convenience. When I was a small child in the mid-late 1960s my family lived about twenty miles south of Schaumburg, Illinois, which was founded over a century earlier by a few hundred German immigrants on open farming land a dozen miles west of what is now Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. www.nationalcorridors.org /df/df11132006.shtml   (5926 words)

The Blog of M'Gath: The electronic future of the Charlie Card In its place, the CharlieCard, a reusable and durable plastic card with a computer chip embedded, will be mailed to monthly bus and subway riders in December for use in January. For Harvard affiliates with a recurring monthly MBTA pass order, the CharlieCard will recharge automatically every month until its canceled or the individual leaves the University. The "smart" CharlieCard will last for up to five years, so it should not be thrown away. mcgath.blogspot.com /2006/11/electronic-future-of-charlie-card.html   (546 words)

MBTA 2007 Charlie Card Fares & Passes Information Monthly Local Bus Pass and Monthly LinkPass are the two types of passes that will be available on CharlieCards. CharlieCards are reusable and can be reloaded automatically — no more monthly passes to distribute. CharlieCards save time, too — simply tap the CharlieCard at the farebox or fare gate, and board. www.bumc.bu.edu /Dept/Content.aspx?DepartmentID=166&PageID=11778   (239 words)

MBTA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) CharlieCards are only available to our Senior/TAP patrons and will be introduced to the general public in 2007. The new service represents a comprehensive program that is made up of a series of initiatives. Reduced fare patrons and parents with children under 5 must use the reduced fare gate. www.mbta.com /projects_underway/afc/index.asp   (1530 words)

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